ALLMATTER MACHINE
The Allmatter Machine is a Megastructure Logistics Engine that is being researched & developed further by use & testing within the Arcommander digital twin universe. It is the logistics system that will enable an Arcology community or Colony, to achieve industrial self-sufficiency as well as agricultural independence.
Mining & Logistics Vehicle Maintenance Depot
Maintenance Garage for Mining Vehicle Fleet & Rail Systems
The Allmatter Industrial Yard's logistics operations starts at the mine - which requires vehicles that operate in harsh conditions.
These vehicles will require a service depot to repair, upgrade & refit mining machinery & essential logistics equipment.
Ore Storage & Train Yard
Refinery Feedstock Materials
The Allmatter Industrial Yard would recieve a wide spectrum of raw ore & raw feedstocks - with the train yard serves as a primary temporary holding facility, for feedstock materials.
From the Train Yard - materials would be sent through the sorting complex and dispatched to the correct corresponding facility thereafter.
Port & Shipyard
Logistics Port & Shipyard
Cargo Freight receiving areas & cargo vessel construction capacity are essential to a self-sustainable model of society. If you are reliant on outside vessels to bring supplies, a society has fewer options than if they can trade on the open market and acquire the best price.
Aerospace Port
Orbital & Atmospheric Transport Hub
The Aerospace Port is the primary interface between the Arcology and its surrounding airspace and orbit. It manages aircraft & spacecraft landing, launch, refueling, cargo transfer, and passenger movement between surface, orbital platforms, and deep-space destinations. This facility integrates hangars, terminals, logistics bays, and traffic control systems, making it essential for trade, exploration, and supply flow throughout the aerospace ecosystem.
Aerospace Shipyard
Starship & Orbital Infrastructure Manufacturing
The Aerospace Shipyard is a high-capacity manufacturing and assembly complex dedicated to constructing, repairing, and upgrading spacecraft and orbital infrastructure. It combines drydocks, heavy fabrication bays, and precision assembly lines to produce everything from transport vessels to arcology-scale space structures. Within a self-sustaining Arcology, the shipyard is the core industrial engine that enables expansion beyond the planet and into orbit.
Sorting Facility & Mega-Warehouse
Sorting Complex - Mega-warehouse Intake Depot
The Allmatter Industrial Yard's Sorting Complex scans, labels, routes ore & feedstocks from the Port & Train Depot and/or other locations & transmits them to the warehouse for storage, or to the appropriate facility within the Allmatter Industrial Yard based on the industrial requirements of the Arcology.
The Mega-Warehouse stores a variety of industrialized elements & isotopes of the periodic table, industrial molecular compounds, and a library of components for rapid assembly of a variety of products, as well as a large library of things ready for use - enabling insitu resource production by serving as a strategic material resource cache for the colony.
Robot Bank & Business Incubator
Robotic Rental, Storage & Repair Facility & Business Incubator
The Robot Bank rents robotics to humans - providing a wide array of options, for a wide array of purposes. Thus enabling the average citizen to utilize low grade to high grade robot to perform tasks, or do a days worth of work. This enables citizens to have an autonomous workforce available to them, on a rental basis. The Robot bank can also help to build businesses or improve upon an existing business plans & finance new operations if it is deemed as a potentially profitable venture via business incubator programs.
Makerspace Mega-Factory
Makerspace & DIY Factory Complex
The Makerspace Mega-Factory is a do-it-yourself Mega-Factory combined with a Makerspace where you can learn about the spectrum of manufacturing processes available within an Arcology. It is supported by the mega-factory which can produce a wide spectrum of goods, coordinating all available manufacturing processes together autonomously and in tandem on demand.
AI & Robotics enable users to act as entrepreneurs with an entire manufacturing library available to them, as well as educational tools which can teach you about the mechanisms.
Metal Foundry - Phase I
Group of 7 Refinery Corridors
The Allmatter Phase I Metal Foundry processes raw ore into raw manufacturing feedstocks in the form of ingots & refined metal products.
Inputs: Raw Ores
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metals: Aluminum, Alumina, Copper, Steel (+Iron), Magnesium, Sodium
Metal Foundry - Phase II
Group of 7 Refinery Corridors
The Allmatter Phase II Metal Foundry processes additional raw ore types, unlocking new raw manufacturing feedstocks in the form of ingots & refined metal products.
Inputs: Raw Ores
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metals: Gold, Silver, Nickel, Chromium, Indium, Tin, Titanium
Metal Alloying Complex
Combines Strategic Metals to create specialized Alloys
The Allmatter Phase II Metal Alloying Complex processes raw metal feedstocks into specialty alloys & electroformed alloys in the form of ingots & refined metal products for manufacturing processes.
Inputs: Raw Metals
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metal Foundry - Phase III
Group of 6 Refinery Corridors
The Phase III Metal Foundry processes additional raw ore types, unlocking new raw manufacturing feedstocks in the form of ingots & refined metal products supporting fuel & propulsion.
Inputs: Raw Ores
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metals: Lithium, Potassium, Rhodium, Tungsten, Platinum, Beryllium
Metal Foundry - Phase IV
Group of 3 Refinery Corridors
The Phase IV Metal Foundry processes additional raw ore types, unlocking new raw manufacturing feedstocks in the form of ingots & refined metal products with higher risk & volatility.
Inputs: Raw Ores
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metals: Zirconium, Titanium Diboride, Tantalum
Metal Foundry - Phase V
Group of 3 Refinery Corridors
The Phase V Metal Foundry processes additional raw ore types, unlocking new raw manufacturing feedstocks in the form of ingots & refined metal products with specialty applications.
Inputs: Raw Ores
Outputs: Ingots, Billets, Powder
Metals: Cobalt, Rhenium, Calcium
Orbital-Grade Alloy Foundry
High-Strength Aerospace Metals
The Orbital-Grade Alloy Foundry specializes in producing advanced structural alloys designed for space environments. It refines and blends metals such as titanium, aluminum, and specialty elements into radiation-resistant, high-strength materials used in starship hulls, orbital habitats, and arcology superstructures. This facility enables the Arcology to manufacture load-bearing components suitable for zero-gravity, vacuum, and high-radiation conditions.
Power Plant, Battery & Energy Complex
Power Plant, Battery Systems & Transformer Complex
The Power Plant, Battery & Energy Complex generates, stores & manages the Arcology various power requirements - from raw resource input to power conversion as well as the use, production & maintenance of batteries & rechargeable power systems.
Novel Labs
Specialized Material R&D Laboratories & Micro-Factories
The Allmatter Novel Material Labs are constructed in the more advanced phases of the Allmatter Machine's development
- Lanthanide Laboratory
- Actinide Laboratory
- Nanotech & Metamaterial Laboratory
- Crystal Laboratory
Chemical Complex
Industrial Chemical Manufacturing & Management
The Chemical Complex generates, stores & manages the refinement and recycling of industrial chemicals, waste & solvents.
Silicon Factory
Silicon, Silica & Glass Refinery
The Silicon Factory produces a wide variety of silicon based feedstocks from glass, silica & fillers to polysilicon, silicones & more. As the Allmatter machine phase states evolve it takes on a gradually larger role & integrates a wider array of processes.
Designed as an Expandable modular Facility that interconnects with many other corridors & facilities within the Allmatter Industrial Yard Ecosystem.
Concrete Factory
Industrial Concrete Production Facility
The Concrete Factory would be responsible for the production of an array of concrete & asphalt products that provide foundational construction capacity for an Arcology.
Feedstock ores & output may vary due to resource availability
Carbon Nanotube & Graphene Megafactory
Ultra-Light Structural & Conductive Materials
The Carbon Nanotube & Graphene Megafactory produces next-generation materials with exceptional strength-to-weight ratios and electrical conductivity. These materials are used in space elevator tethers, advanced wiring, radiation shielding, and lightweight structural components. The megafactory represents a leap beyond traditional metallurgy, enabling megastructures and aerospace systems that would otherwise be impossible using conventional materials.
Ceramic & Ablative Heat Shield Foundry
Thermal Protection & ReEntry Materials
The Ceramic & Ablative Heat Shield Foundry manufactures high-temperature ceramics and ablative composites used for spacecraft reentry systems, engine insulation, and extreme thermal environments. These materials protect vehicles and infrastructure from atmospheric friction, plasma exposure, and intense heat loads. The foundry is essential for producing reentry-capable spacecraft and durable orbital-to-surface transport systems.
Water Storage-Treatment Complex
Water Storage & Filtration Systems
The Water Storage-Treatment Complex is where water is stored, filtered and prepared for industrial, commercial & residential usage. Black, Grey & Pollution filtration systems for industrial - residential water exist, as well as various reservoirs.
Atmospheric Seperation Unit
Air Filtration System & Gas Accumulator
The Atmospheric Seperation Unit processes provides filtration and refine natural air into constituent gases for industrial use. The process involves heating & cooling exchanges that can clear VOCs from air systems and also concentrate airborne gases for usage across the Arcologies industrial, commercial & residential operations.
Cryogenic Fuel Production Facility
Advanced Propellant Refining & Storage
The Cryogenic Fuel Production Facility produces and stores ultra-cold propellants such as liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, and methane for aerospace and orbital operations. Using purified gases from atmospheric separation and refined water sources, this facility supports launch systems, spacecraft propulsion, and high-energy industrial processes. It is a critical backbone of any aerospace-focused Arcology, enabling sustained spaceflight and orbital construction.
AgroChemical Complex
Industrial Agricultural Feedstock Refining Complex
The Agrochemical Complex refines industrial plant matter into feedstocks for manufacturing or other agricultural related uses.
Feedstock: Soy, Hemp, Flax, Candelila, Castorbean, Sugarcane
Wax Factory
Industrial Wax Manufacturing & Processing Plant
The Wax Factory is a micro-factory within the AgroChemical Complex that refines plant feedstocks into industrial, commercial & consumer grade wax products & manufacturing feedstocks.
Polymer Factory
Industrial Polymer Complex
The Polymer Factory is a micro-factory within the AgroChemical Complex that refines plant feedstocks into industrial, commercial & consumer grade polymer feedstocks.
Epoxy Factory
Industrial Epoxy Manufacturing Facility
The Epoxy Factory is a micro-factory within the AgroChemical Complex that refines various feedstocks into industrial, commercial & consumer grade epoxy products.
AgroProduce Complex
Food Production & Processing Complex
The Atmospheric Seperation Unit processes provides filtration and refine natural air into constituent gases for industrial use. The process involves heating & cooling exchanges that can clear VOCs from air systems and also concentrate airborne gases for usage across the Arcologies industrial, commercial & residential operations.
Agricultural Feedstock Building
Feedstock Crop Production
Agricultural Feedstock Buildings are vertical farming centers that provide feedstock for the AgroChemical Production facility, AgroProduce Facility, Terraforming Complex &/or other facilities.
They are modular vertical farming greenhouse towers that can produce industrial crops, food crops, medicinal crops & fungi!
AgroBug Refinery
Insect Feedstock Refinery
AgroBug Refineries produce industrial & manufacturing products for agricultural, industrial & commercial uses.
Capable of refining insects from multiple biomes, into various product lines & industrial feedstocks.
AgroBug Feedstock Building
Insect Feedstock Production
Provides feedstocks for AgroBug Refineries - which produce industrial & manufacturing products for agricultural, industrial & commercial uses.
AgroBug Feedstock Building - Biome Options
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Taiga/Boreal
- Tundra
- Desert
- Savanna/Grassland
- Wetland
- Aquatic/Marine
SoilArk Garden Factory
Technosoil Manufacturing Complex
The SoilArk Factory produces the biological components needed to produce technosoils - that can be combined with regolith to produce soil grades usable by agricultural & industrial crops.
Cyanobacterial Harvest Facility
Oxygen, Food & Fertilizer Production
The Cyanobacterial Harvest Facility produces oxygen, bio-nutrients, biofuels, and carbon-negative feedstocks by cultivating cyanobacteria in rotating photobioreactors.
Using solar-driven light cycling, automated nutrient delivery, and closed-loop harvesting, the facility converts COâ‚‚, water, and minerals into oxygen, biomass, proteins, lipids, pigments, and precursor compounds that supply the Agrochemical, Chemical, Energy, and SoilArk factories—forming a foundational life-support and bio-industrial pillar of the Arcology.
Terraforming Complex
Drone & Seeder Agriculture Systems
The Terraforming Complex is a large-scale environmental engineering facility responsible for generating net-positive agricultural output for planetary development and export. It works in direct coordination with the SoilArk Factory, deploying automated drones and atmospheric seeders to establish fertile soil layers, introduce crops, and stabilize ecosystems. This complex enables the Arcology to expand agriculture beyond its immediate footprint while maintaining long-term ecological balance and food security.
Recycling & Scrap Yard
Metal Reclamation & Scrap Sorting Complex
The Recycling & Scrap Yard complex is responsible for managing metal garbage disposal processes, such as shredding, sorting & preparing metal scrap for the refinery.
Some larger industrial components, may be kept as back up parts before being scrapped, if they have a high volume of use.
Compost & Waste Management
Waste Management Facility
The Compost & Waste Management Facility handles most perishable waste, with foodscraps and compostable materials being utilized to generate fertilizer & excess materials being shredded, burned &/or chemically broken down to their constituent parts - so that they can be utilized if possible.
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The capacity to physically & chemically shred garbage to break it down to its constituent parts would be one of the most highly important parts of Arcology resource & logistics management.
Residential Complex
Community Housing & Residential Amenities
An Arcology at any stage of development will require residential housing to shelter its population. The residential complex would be modular and adaptive to suit the needs of the population at large.
The residential complex would include laundry facilities, parking facilities & mixed residential-commercial zones for small shops.
Recreational Area & Gym
Community Park & Sports-Entertainment Complex
Arcology should have a built-in multi-sport arena/complex with adequate sports & gym facilities - as a way to offer residents with an easy to access means of maintaining physical fitness.
A wide spectrum of equipment and programs would ideally be included but these could also be adjusted based on the interests & preferences of the local arcology population.
Civics Complex
City Governance & Legal Infastructure
The Civics Complex hosts the Arcology City-Hall & Court Systems, as well as administrative offices for managing the various departments of Arcology operations.
Public Works & Maintenance Facility
Road & Arcology Utility Repair Services
Arcologies require the capacity to repair their own internal roads, walkways & utilities & a dedicated public works & maintenance facility would be responsible & provide these services.
Fire Department
Emergency Fire Response Services
Emergency Fire Response Services are critical to protecting the public & Arcology infrastructure. The ability for an Arcology to prevent itself from burning down is an essential function.
The Fire Department would be responsible for responding to emergencies - residential, commercial or industrial & would be equipped to handle the full spectrum of responses required.
Hospital & Medical Complex
Hospital, Patient/Maternal Care, Medical Research
Arcologies should have a built-in multi-purpose medical facility that can provide full service from birth to end of life care, which is also capable of full spectrum hospital service. The Medical complex should also house in-hospital medical research facilities to support advanced patient care & research.
Security / Police / Military Facilities
Emergency Security Response & Law Enforcement
Arcologies require capacity to self-govern & a private security, police or military capacity becomes necessary at scale.
Academy
Educational Facilities
An Arcology would need to have its own in house academic facilities for students from youth to adulthood. The Arcology Academy would provide these types of educational options for elementary to post-graduate learning.
Ark Library & Knowledge Center
Ark & Arcology Library & Educational Resource Center
Arcologies should have an Educational Resource Complex where they can access a spectrum of resources - from books and literature, to videos, games, music and other media types.
An Arcology Library could also preserve records of the Arcologies development, its contributors, its research advancements and much more. An Ark library is essential to Arcology-centric Civilizations enhanced development.
Commerce & Entertainment Complex
Commercial Market & Entertainment Center
Arcology should have a built-in multi-entertainment complex with a marketplace, cinemas, arcades, food court buffets & other commercial outlets. The Commerce & Entertainment Complex would be the equivalent of an Arcology Mega-Mall complex with all of the above said facilities & more.
Tourism-Amusement Complex
Tourism & Amusement Complex
Arcologies should have an Amusement park complex built into them which can be a revenue generator but also a place for advanced forms of entertainment beyond that which is available within the Entertainment complex. It would also host food & commercial market spaces.
The Tourism-Amusement complex could also offer camping or hotel like amenities for temporary Arcology visitors - enabling visitors to stay in the most fun part of town.
